Ancient greek Quote by Yōko Ogawa

“For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed......Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?”

— Robert Kaplan

“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept and only…

— Chris Anderson

“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name for the…

— John D. Barrow

“Zero has had a long history. The Babylonians invented the concept of zero; the ancient Greeks debated it in lofty terms (how could something…

— Dan Ariely

“Will it be the idea of absence of any number-or the idea of a number for such absence? Is it to be the mark…

— Robert Kaplan

“There is, as we shall see, a real and precise difference between the number zero and the concept of a set that posesses no…

— John D. Barrow

“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.”

— Frank Wilczek

“Indeed, the very word “zero” has Indian origins: The Indian word for zero was sunya, meaning “empty,” which the Arabs turned into sifr. Western…

— Chris Anderson

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no…

— David Levithan

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

— Lancelot Hogben

Number was the substance of all things.

— Pythagoras

“Infinite amounts of nothingness lie everywhere around. And still, there is no nothingness anywhere.”

— Klaudio Marashi